Posts: 1092
From: ann arbor mi
Registered: Apr 2008

posted December 12, 2008 02:08 PM         

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it is an expression in the states.

like how can you complain about others when you do the same things they do..

really just another way to say hypocrite.

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From: U.K
Registered: Dec 2007

posted December 12, 2008 03:48 PM         

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The French version is: that's the hospital talking about the charity.

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From: ca, usa
Registered: Jan 2008

posted December 12, 2008 05:12 PM         

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well it seems stillatlarge is no longer at large...!

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From: england
Registered: Aug 2007

posted December 12, 2008 06:02 PM         

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love to you all, stillatlarge, the kids, the teachers....

try this at school, kids could like it.

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From: Australia
Registered: Jun 2008

posted December 13, 2008 01:25 AM         

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All this talk of kids and teachers.... all I can say is....I've got one month of holidays from today! YIPPEE!!!

I deserve it because of a thousand reasons

Happy Year of the Teacher to all those lovely teachers out there

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From: U.K
Registered: Dec 2007

posted December 13, 2008 06:03 AM         

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there seems to be a lot of teachers on LL

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From: The bigrock candy mountains
Registered: Jul 2008

posted December 13, 2008 09:27 AM         

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blue moon- that is interesting. I wonder what causes that.

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From: UK
Registered: Jun 2006

posted December 13, 2008 06:36 PM         

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Well, I just didn't like school when I was there, and didn't see the point of being there (apart from learning reading, writing and basic arithmetic, I thought it was a waste of time, and I still do). I don't see myself as a failure; amongst other things, I have gone on to write 3 books - however, I have always been extremely self-motivated, and I found the school curriculum extremely limiting. Everything that has been useful to me I have taught myself (the only education establishments I found to be actually useful were further education establishments, which taught vocational skills, and where I found the tutors to be excellent at dealing with students - the approach of school and university/higher education was not for me, too academic, not applied enough, too ivory-towerish).
School is not for everyone, and many kids are just bored by compulsory learning. Reducing the school leaving age to 14, bringing back apprenticeships and more manual jobs, would do the world of good, but is not something that any government would even entertain, as kids all have to be wrapped in cotton wool these days (I saw it even as a teenager in the 80s).

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